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The AL Central looks like the only live playoff race right now (and I've got my money on Detroit). The A's lost today but the Angels are squandering their chance to make up a game trailing Seattle late. A week to go and the postseason is all but set, pretty disappointing really, this is not what the commissioner was hoping for.

I saw the telecast of the Seaver 10-in-a-row game as a spry 13-year old. It was against a pretty weak Padres team, Nate Colbert was probably their star, maybe Al Ferrara, too. He K'ed the last 10 batters in the game. There wasn't anything cheap about the K's, it really looked like a mismatch. If they put up another 6 or 7 guys he probably would have struck them out, too.gamelink

How is the ALC up for grabs and the ALE not so? Sure, the Orioles and Yankees are very likely to make the playoffs either way but there's a HUGE difference between the Wild Card and the Division title.

He's the 4th strter, ahead of a guy who with 23 career starts and an OPS+ of 87. He also had the "Win Blake Stein's Money" bit in Jayson Stark's columns for many years, which is a lot more than most crappy pitchers can say.

I always liked to watch Stein pitch. He had great "stuff" if you define that as movement. But he could rarely get his best pitches over. He could throw a BP fastball for a strike more or less at will. Of course that's not a winning strategy against major leaguers.

Stein had a really straight fastball. But he was very tall and could throw pretty hard. God what an abomination of a trade that was - three junk pitchers for a great, but underrated pitcher in his prime in Kevin Appier.